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...said to myself, ‘Look, I can make a difference on a small level,’” Koenig says, adding that that success inspired him to push for Harvard to get on “proven renewable energy sources within two years...
...Businesses and analogous enterprises like government do right to favor candidates with proven abilities to succeed in challenging and competitive environments, and no doubt a proven track record of success at an elite university speaks highly of its holder. Education, however, traditionally has been conceived as its own end, the pursuit of truth and the acquisition of virtue—good in and of itself. Meritocrats inevitably see education as a means to an end, some merely instrumental good. Therefore, an excessive reliance on meritocracy at the cost of, say, strength of character or capacity for virtue, would seem...
Philippa G. Eccles ’09, another inductee and a History of Art and Architecture concentrator, attributed a part of her success to her enjoyment of both Core and concentration courses...
...does the intellect assured by an Ivy League diploma grant its bearer a sufficient title to rule? Is political virtue equivalent to the type of knowledge and intellectual agility required for success at places like Harvard? The point, pace the politically ambitious set at Harvard, remains far from certain...
...Essayist Joseph Epstein recently wrote a critique of Brooks’s “valedictocracy” in the Weekly Standard. According to Epstein, the “good student”—the one who meets assured success at elite universities—has “only one pertinent question, which is, What does this guy, his professor at the moment, want? Whatever it is—a good dose of liberalism, libertarianism, feminism, conservatism—he gives it to him, in exchange for another A to slip into his backpack alongside...